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For me, as someone growing up in a working-class suburb in Stockholm, I couldn't afford all the music. So back in '98, '99, I was really thinking about how I could get all the music and do it in a legal way while at the same time compensating the artist.

Daniel Ek

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I haven't seen or spoken to Ray Collins in at least 10 years so I don't even know if he's alive. I hope so.

Jimmy Carl Black

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My family and high school friends were the only people who were with me every step of the way through my mothers' illness. They sat by my side year after year and consoled me. If they ever sent me a bill, I would be paying them off for the rest of my life.

Jenna Morasca

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I'm a capitalist. I'm not going to feel sympathetic to people leading a life they don't have to lead who, with effort, could maybe break out of it.

John Caudwell

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You know when you play Pictionary and someone draws a state? My biggest fear is that I'm not gonna know what state it is. I'm so bad at geography.

Melora Hardin

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When we talk about 'Sweetback,' yes, it stars the whole black movement, but it's also the first time an independent film made that kind of money and was that successful and taken seriously.

Melvin Van Peebles

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I think the Cold War works as a great analogy or simile for different kinds of conflict. It's funny, when you look back at it, it's one of the last times that the boundaries were clear. Now, as we see on 'Homeland,' there are no clear boundaries and enemies.

Matthew Rhys

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I'm more of a comic-book movie fan than a comic book fan.

Matthew Vaughn

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I really do believe that my style is informed by the fact that I had such issues with my appearance at various times of my life.

Stacy London

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Successful people jump at opportunity and take advantage of it.

Sir Mix-a-Lot

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If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

Socrates

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It's always the minorities who aren't a part of the mainstream who define what the limits... of the majority are going to be.

Rose Bird

LimitsAlwaysDefineGoingMajority

The American public historically was really not part of the stock market.

Ron Chernow

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